Kay Adam — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

Amy Gets Eaten

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:28:39 +0000

The first-ever picture book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker.This is the hilarious (and admittedly a tiny bit gross) tale of Amy, a small piece of sweetcorn who is eaten by Noah, a medium-sized boy. The story follows Amy on her funny, gooey and anatomically-accurate adventure through the human body as she discovers lots of facts about digestion. (It’s fair to say that parents might learn a little bit too.)

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 05:29:33 +0000

The number one Sunday Times bestseller in a new festive package, Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas is the perfect stocking filler from the author of multi-million-copy bestseller This is Going to Hurt – now a major BBC TV series.Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat . . . but 1.4 million NHS staff are heading off to work. In this perfect present for anyone who has ever set foot in a hospital, Adam Kay delves back into his diaries for a hilarious, horrifying and sometimes heartbreaking peek behind the blue curtain at Christmastime.This is a love letter to all those who spend their festive season on the front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck, at the most wonderful time of the year.

This is Going to Hurt Secret Diaries of a Junior

Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:23:10 +0000

The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards.’Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.’ — Stephen FryWelcome to the life of a junior doctor: 97-hour weeks, life and death decisions, a constant tsunami of bodily fluids, and the hospital parking meter earns more than you.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights and missed weekends, Adam Kay’s This is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the NHS front line. Hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking, this diary is everything you wanted to know — and more than a few things you didn’t — about life on and off the hospital ward.Sunday Times Number One Bestseller for over eight months and winner of a record FOUR National Book Awards: Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year and Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year.This edition includes extra diary entries and an afterword by the author.I’d prescribe this book to anyone and everyone. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, heartbreakingly sad and gives you the lowdown on what it’s like to be holding it together while serving on the front line of our beloved but beleaguered NHS. It’s wonderfulJonathan RossSo clinically funny and politically important for supporters of the NHS that it should be given out on prescriptionGuardianPainfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.Stephen Fry